Phil Gingrey: “We are asking this body to allow us to debate and pass legislation regarding military commissions so that we can try and…”

“We are asking this body to allow us to debate and pass legislation regarding military commissions so that we can try and bring to justice these terrorists. And by the way, 164 of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle yesterday voted against that. Also in this same-day rule is to allow us to address this issue of wiretapping necessary to listen to the conversations, international conversations between al Qaeda and people in this country who would do us harm, to modernize that 1978 law which needs modernization to protect our American people. That is what this is all about. ... they got to the Medicare modernization and the all-important prescription drug part D plan for Medicare that we finally delivered to our American seniors back in November of 2003 when they have been asking for the 40 years that the Democrats controlled this body for relief and got now. And now they are railing against this issue saying it is a giveaway to the pharmaceutical industry and that we would not allow government price controls.”